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Syracuse football injury report: Running back George Morris II healthy for Maryland game

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Syracuse running back George Morris II (27) is healthy heading into this weekend's game at Maryland. Morris had missed the previous three games because of an upper-body injury.
(Dick Blume | dblume@syracuse.com)

Syracuse, N.Y. — It's not who is listed on the Syracuse injury report this week that is newsworthy so much as who is not on it.

That would be reserve running back George Morris II, who had missed the previous three games because of an upper-body injury. Morris was also one of the team's starting kick returners before he got hurt.

The interior of the Syracuse defensive line has been banged up throughout the year, and it will be without reserve nose tackle Marcus Coleman, who will miss Saturday's game at Maryland with an upper-body injury.

Eric Crume, who coach Scott Shafer said played nine snaps last week as he was playing through a lower-body injury, should be near full strength for Saturday. The defensive line has also had to absorb the loss of John Raymon.

Shafer said many fans have sent emails to the program with well wishes for Raymon, who is out for the season with a knee injury after he was carted off the field at Georgia Tech on Oct. 19.

"He's in 'knock out the academic mode' right now and get that thing healed up enough to where he can have a surgery and bounce back as quick as possible," Shafer said on his Thursday night radio show.

"He had a very bad injury. More than a couple things were injured in there, so it's going to be a long process."

Finally, backup wide receiver Quinta Funderburk, a fan favorite despite not getting much run, will miss his second straight game because of an upper-body injury.